Your first point reminds me of this talk about consistency in training and why russian wrestlers are supposedly always the best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v

Your first point reminds me of this talk about consistency in training and why russian wrestlers are supposedly always the best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fbCcWyYthQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fbCcWyYthQ I've been applying this concept 5 days a week to do 20 min of exercise. It's so much easier to do more in the long run by doing it everyday and not going all out exertion.